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2018-10-18
05:51 New ticket [7011a6c749] Enable xft Font Support on Linux builds. artifact: 51da5926d5 user: anonymous

Ticket Hash: 7011a6c7499c10422fd27a1d16438c22637b41ea
Title: Enable xft Font Support on Linux builds
Status: Open Type: Feature Request
Severity: Important Priority:
Subsystem: Resolution:
Last Modified: 2018-10-18 05:51:18
Version Found In: 0.11.0
Description:
The build for Linux 64 bit did only contain a very limited amount of fonts if tk is loaded. Probably -xft is not enabled on the build architecture.

see here:
http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.tcl/font-issues-running-tclkit-on-linux/2980792
For instance on ubuntu this should do the trick:
sudo apt-get install libxft-dev